Antitrust Writing Awards & Ranking

By recognizing superior writing in academia and practice, the Antitrust Writing Awards enhance the indispensable intellectual infrastructure of our field.” William E. Kovacic, George Washington University Competition Law Center.

The Antitrust Writing Awards bring together the Academic and the Business world from many countries, contribute to a better understanding of other legal cultures and thereby promote the global development of Competition law.

These awards have come to play a very important role in encouraging and rewarding quality writing about competition law ! They have helped to spread competition law insights and knowledge throughout the world. I and many others are very grateful that they exist and that they are so effective.

Having served as a member of the panel bestowing the 2014 Concurrences Awards for excellence in antitrust writing, I was very pleased to find the submissions ranged from the merely good to the truly outstanding. These awards have surely made antitrust academics and practitioners more alert to the value of writing well, with attention not only to substantive analysis but also to clarity and economy of presentation. Our field is blessed with an erudite academy and an intellectually sophisticated bar ; the Concurrences Awards bring out the best in both.

The Antitrust Writing Awards provide a vital forum for the validation and recognition of thought-leading scholarship. They accompany and consecrate the rising prominence and impact of competition law on the global economy.

It was a great pleasure to be part of the 2014 Antitrust Writing Awards Board. The Awards really matter because competition law is experiencing a dynamic development worldwide and the Awards highlight the valuable insights and findings of the international antitrust community.

The Concurrences writing awards highlight outstanding work by practitioners in the area of competition law and policy and shed valuable light on ’cutting edge’ topics.

The Antitrust Writing Awards are a great service to the antitrust community. By collecting the best writing in the field of both practitioners and academics, the Writing Awards create a one-stop shop that saves tremendous amounts of time, keeps readers fully cognizant of the best new work, and provides recognition to those who make the effort to share their expertise with antitrust lawyers across the globe.

Law professors so often write without any meaningful feedback or hearing only from those who disagree with them (to be sure, in the spirit of healthy debate). To have our work not only recognized, but recognized by board members whose work we respect so much and by institutions with so much credibility, is a rare and delightful treat.

I commend the organisers for recognizing professional writing as a specific category. This initiative will, I hope, increase the quality and depth of such writing to provide the practical complement to academic articles.

The 2014 Antitrust Writing Awards were a wonderful celebration of the extremely high caliber of antitrust scholarship around the world. Competition policy, law and enforcement worldwide is greatly enriched by the quality of the research that was evidenced in the papers reviewed for the Awards. It was a great pleasure to be involved.

The writing awards showcase works that push the boundaries of academic and practitioner knowledge. These works will be cited by courts and agencies and will help top shape antitrust/competition policy going forward.

This is a great event promoting antitrust scholarship around the world.

I was impressed with the diligence with which the jury reviewed and selected the publications. This is a valuable exercise that not only rewards the authors, but also is very helpful for practitioners. We were honoured to receive an award for our firm’s alert memoranda and are grateful to Concurrences for this excellent initiative.

We are pleased with the significant contribution that the Antitrust Writing Awards program makes to the development and promotion of antitrust scholarship and practical business literature.